Skye Jethani quotes - page 2

The spiritual life must find its origin in silence. (Skye Jethani)
The transformation of our desires happens like all spiritual transformation - by following in the steps of Jesus. In a word, I believe the answer is suffering. View quote
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Properly understood, the church is not an institution. It is the community of Jesus' followers on earth - men, women, an children filled with God's Spirit, living in communion with him, one another, and the world. View quote
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The "trials of ordinary existence" are the divine curricula for spiritual maturity. View quote
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The dilemma posed by consumerism is not the endless manufacturing of desires, but the temptation to settle for desires far below what we were created for. View quote
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What might we learn about God and ourselves if our Bible study group gathered outside to stare at the stars in silence? View quote
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Scripture champions contentment and self-control, not the endless pursuit of personal desires. Teaching and modeling these increasingly un-American values is not a high priority in most churches. View quote
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By yielding its imagination to the forms around it, has the church, like ancient Israel, lost the ability to be an alternative people of God? View quote
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We live, and move, and have our being in a consumer cosmos. The global economy and interconnection of markets and resources means every time we eat a meal, listen to music, put on clothing, or read a book, we are being consumers. View quote
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Maybe God is waiting for us to be silent long enough so he may begin painting a new picture in our imaginations, to begin transforming our image of a manageable deity into one that can truly inspire. View quote
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Our spiritual imaginations have fallen asleep on the comfortable mattress of the consumer culture, and before any remedy for the church can be prescribed our dormant imaginations must be stirred from their slumber. (Skye Jethani)
In less than a century, Christians have gone from opposing over-consumption at Christmas to demanding it be done in Christ's name alone. View quote
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Since the Enlightenment's coronation of knowledge, generations of Christians had brains full of biblical knowledge and doctrine, but their lives showed little evidence of the transformation Jesus called forth in his Sermon on the Mount. View quote
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In a commodity culture we have been conditioned to believe nothing carries intrinsic value. Instead, value is found only in a thing's usefulness to us, and tragically this belief has been applied to people as well. View quote
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Paralleling the corporate shift away from manufacturing goods to manufacturing brands, Christianity in North America has drifted from a faith of substance to a faith of perception. View quote
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Our imaginations can throw off the shackles of consumerism if we start to feel the infinite once again. View quote
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To believe that employing consumer methods in the church will produce spiritually mature Christians is delusional thinking akin to expecting a dog to hatch from a chicken's egg. View quote
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Self-denial, the surrendering of immediate desires, is a prerequisite of the Christian life. This is noticeably absent in the gospel of Consumer Christianity. View quote
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Although the forces of consumerism would have us remain forever in Neverland by running after every product promising to satisfy our desire and alleviate our suffering, the invitation of Christ is precisely the opposite. View quote
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Finding true silence requires more than quieting our surroundings. It also means quieting our souls. This is the real dilemma of living in a wordy world. View quote
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The alternative to prefabricated-experience spirituality is what has been practiced by Christians for centuries: prayer. (Skye Jethani)
Learning to see the world as it truly is - saturated with the presence and love of God - should be the essence of Christian discipleship, or what many call spiritual formation. View quote
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Advertising has formed us to give our affection not only to the products we consume, but also to the personified corporations that supply them. View quote
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Our culture has confined our imaginations with an uninspiring vision of God. He's been reduced to a manageable deity of consumable proportions. View quote
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Silence can shatter the trivialized deity that has occupied our imaginations and provide God the canvas to begin a new work in our souls. View quote
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